WHAT TO EXPECT

As a Software Engineer within our Platform Services team, you will take a big role in delivering scalable cloud-based applications and services powering one of the world’s leading B2C communications providers. 

You will have experience establishing a culture of inclusivity and technical excellence. You will work together with Senior Engineers, the Technical Lead and Engineering Manager to deliver software to a high standard through an agile, collaborative approach. 

You will use your experience, passion and pragmatism to achieve the team’s goals and commitments. You will work with the Senior Engineers, Engineering Manager and Technical Lead to ensure there is always close collaboration across the team structure. 

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

The role holder will be responsible for: 

• Delivering software to a high standard across our full range of products and services
• Taking part in all stages of the software development lifecycle as part of a close-knit, highly collaborative and continuously improving team 
• Participating in agile ceremonies such as stand-ups, planning meetings and retrospectives
• Working with the team including the Product Owner to refine requirements into deliverable user stories
• Providing specialist 3rd line technical support to colleagues, both in and out of hours 
• Investigating, planning and estimating potential projects and features 
• Shaping internal standards and supporting team members in delivering to them
• Technical supporting other team members in their work 
• Driving a positive experience within the team, and a culture of continuous improvement
• Aligning the engineering team to deliver product features that meet customer outcomes and use data to continuously learn, test and improve the quality and value of features
• Working closely with the Engineering Manager, Technical Lead, Architects and Product Owner 

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

The job holder will be an exceptional candidate with a proven track record in a similar role. In particular they are required to have: 

Essential 

• Demonstrable experience delivering high quality software within an agile team
• Experience with C#, .NET Core and microservices
• Experience of agile programming techniques, values and principles 
• Experience with test-driven development (TDD) and behavior-driven development (BDD)
• Focus on non-functional requirements (NFR) like testability, security, performance, etc
• Experience of scalable, cloud-based solutions, preferably using Microsoft Azure
• Experience of designing and implementing RESTful APIs 
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines 
• Creative problem-solving 
• Attention to detail 
• Strong team working skills 
• Strong communication and documentation skills 
• Empathy and emotional intelligence 

Desirable 

• Experience supporting team members in professional and personal development 
• Knowledge on frontend development (Angular, Razor Pages, etc)
• Knowledge of containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes, etc) 
• Infrastructure as Code scripting using Terraform 
• Experience working with distributed international teams 
• Exposure to Atlassian JIRA and Confluence